The movie that they really missed was Turner and Hootch starring Tom Hanks. I can't believe that test audiences were ok with the dog dying at the end. In fact, I once saw David Letterman ask Hanks what he had learned about making a hit movie and Hanks said "Don't kill the damned dog at the end of the movie".
I have never heard of I Mother Earth but there was a very good unheralded band in the 60s and 70s called Mother Earth. They were from Wisconsin and moved to San Francisco with Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs. They had a woman singer named Tracy Nelson who was considered " close to Joplin". They started as blues psychedelic and moved to a more country sound as time went on.
Nelson had a Country hit with a remake of Lynn and Twitty's " After the Fire is Gone" which she sang with Willie Nelson. They hung around for a decade on a half dozen labels. Nelson still performed as a solo act last I heard. Linda Ronstadt recorded her song " Down so Low". Thanks for indirectly reminding me of them.
I think I've probably seen most of Turner and Hootch, but I don't remember the dog dying (so I must have not made it til the end). Yeah, sounds like a bad move.
Never heard of Mother Earth, but they'd have been before my time.
As I said Tracy Nelson was the focus of the group. Their bass player Tim Drummond had a good career playing with Conway Twitty, Dylan, James Brown,Clapton, Neil Young,CSNY, Ry Cooder,JJ Cale, Miles Davis. BB King,Joe Cocker and Jewel (!) among others
The movie that they really missed was Turner and Hootch starring Tom Hanks. I can't believe that test audiences were ok with the dog dying at the end. In fact, I once saw David Letterman ask Hanks what he had learned about making a hit movie and Hanks said "Don't kill the damned dog at the end of the movie".
I have never heard of I Mother Earth but there was a very good unheralded band in the 60s and 70s called Mother Earth. They were from Wisconsin and moved to San Francisco with Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs. They had a woman singer named Tracy Nelson who was considered " close to Joplin". They started as blues psychedelic and moved to a more country sound as time went on.
Nelson had a Country hit with a remake of Lynn and Twitty's " After the Fire is Gone" which she sang with Willie Nelson. They hung around for a decade on a half dozen labels. Nelson still performed as a solo act last I heard. Linda Ronstadt recorded her song " Down so Low". Thanks for indirectly reminding me of them.
I think I've probably seen most of Turner and Hootch, but I don't remember the dog dying (so I must have not made it til the end). Yeah, sounds like a bad move.
Never heard of Mother Earth, but they'd have been before my time.
As I said Tracy Nelson was the focus of the group. Their bass player Tim Drummond had a good career playing with Conway Twitty, Dylan, James Brown,Clapton, Neil Young,CSNY, Ry Cooder,JJ Cale, Miles Davis. BB King,Joe Cocker and Jewel (!) among others